Sulle tracce della “nazione imperiale”. Il dibattito sulle colonie durante il Triennio liberale (1820-1823)

Authors

Emanuele De Luca Università degli Studi di Trieste

Keywords:

Liberalism, Colonialism, Imperial Turn, Latin America, Nation Building

Abstract

On the Trail of the “Imperial Nation”. The Colonial Debate During the Liberal Triennium (1820-1823)

The Trienio liberal was a decisive historical conjuncture for Spanish liberalism. In parliamentary speeches as well as in the press publications, the relationship between Mother country and colonies become object of confrontation and clash useful to define and differentiate liberal political cultures too. Different proposals and forms of relationship were therefore elaborated with revolutionary territories of Ultramar. In this essay we retrace those debates as signals of a transformation and redefinition – not elimination – of the Spanish imperial culture during the 19th century.

Received: 20-12-2019

Admitted: 20-06-2020

Author Biography

Emanuele De Luca, Università degli Studi di Trieste

Emanuele De Luca ha ottenuto il PhD in Storia delle società, delle istituzioni e del pensiero, presso l’Università degli studi di Trieste, in co-tutela con l’Univer- sitat de Valencia. L’ultima pubblicazione è “I leoni del Congreso de los diputa- dos. Identità nazionale e riorientamento imperiale nella Spagna del XIX secolo”, contenuto nel volume «Il passato nel presente. Memorializzazione e usi pubblici della storia» (2020).